Head Coach options for the 49ers in 2011: Who do you like and why?

Originally posted by PTulini:
I read yesterday that Texans HC Gary Kubiak will most-likely be fired at the end of this season. The article went on to say that Kubiak could become the top candidate for the Denver Broncos HC job, especially since Kubiak has a history with the team and HOF QB John Elway is now a consultant to the Broncos and Owner Pat Bowlen.

If Kubiak is fired, it is almost a sure thing that he gets the Denver job. Kubiak is a link back to the Shanahan regime (who should've never been fired. Replace a proven offensive guy with an unproven one)?

Originally posted by LifelongNiner:

Originally posted by PTulini:
I read yesterday that Texans HC Gary Kubiak will most-likely be fired at the end of this season. The article went on to say that Kubiak could become the top candidate for the Denver Broncos HC job, especially since Kubiak has a history with the team and HOF QB John Elway is now a consultant to the Broncos and Owner Pat Bowlen.

If Kubiak is fired, it is almost a sure thing that he gets the Denver job. Kubiak is a link back to the Shanahan regime (who should've never been fired. Replace a proven offensive guy with an unproven one)?

Kubiak was our QB coach in '94.

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By Bruce Hooley
FOXSports Ohio
Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Jim Harbaugh has a sweetened contract extension on his desk from Stanford University waiting for his signature and calls holding on lines 1, 2, 3 and 4 from the San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Miami Hurricanes and Michigan Wolverines.

Until he gets an apology, he might not pick up line 4.

That’s right, Michigan Fan, while most of you think Captain Comeback’s return to Ann Arbor is a formality, the words he’s waiting to hear aren’t, “Help, save us.”

They’re, “We’re sorry. We screwed up.”

No, not by hiring Rich Rodriguez to succeed Lloyd Carr, although RichRod’s 15-21 record in three seasons certainly rings the bell on the mistake meter.

The bigger obstacle to Harbaugh’s homecoming is the maize-and-blue fury that fell on him in May 2007 when he said this:

“Michigan is a good school and I got a good education there, but the athletic department has ways to get borderline guys in and, when they’re in, they steer them to courses in sports communication. They’re adulated when they’re playing, but when they get out, the people who adulated them won’t hire them.”

That bombshell landed like napalm on the psyche of Michigan Men everywhere, and the scorched-earth policy unleashed on Harbaugh thereafter needs to be smoothed over before he’ll consider extinguishing the dumpster fire that currently masquerades as the Wolverines’ football program.

Lloyd Carr, who was entering his final year at Michigan in 2007, called Harbaugh’s comments, “elitist,” “arrogant” and “self-serving.”

Michael Hart, Carr’s senior tailback that year, fired an even bigger volley.

“That’s a guy I have no respect for,” Hart said of Harbaugh. “You graduate from the University of Michigan, and you’re going to talk about your school like that, a great university like we have? To say that we’re not true student-athletes? I don’t know if maybe he wants to coach here and he’s mad because he didn’t get the job . . . He’s not a Michigan Man. I wish he never played here.”

Not a Michigan Man?

Harbaugh, remember, is the guy who led Michigan to Big Ten championships in 1985 and 1986. Back then, he had the temerity to guarantee a win at Ohio State in his senior year in a winner-take-Rose-Bowl battle in Columbus and then made good on his boast.

Michigan loved Harbaugh’s hubris when aimed at others, but its petulant reaction when he zeroed in too close to home was reminiscent of a teenager found with drugs in the bedroom screaming, “How dare you search my bedroom!”

He gotcha, Michigan, as a survey of your media guide that year proved. Only 30 of the Wolverines football players had majors listed in their 2007 media guide, and 19 of those were pursuing degrees in the suspiciously-generic “general studies.”

Harbaugh didn’t like it when the collective anger of Wolverine nation lashed back without ever addressing the substance of his remarks. Why would he like it any better now that he’s exponentially more marketable and working at a place that advances the very values he holds dear?

The only buzz coming from Michigan these days, while athletic director David Brandon lets Rodriguez twist in the wind like a kite caught in a tornado, is that fans will grudgingly forgive Harbaugh for speaking intemperately because he’s needed so badly to fix the current mess.

No one who thinks that has been paying the least bit of attention to who Harbaugh really is.

It’s not about Harbaugh being accepted by Michigan; it’s about him accepting Michigan and being comfortable with its mission for football at the university.

The list of available NFL jobs seemingly grows every day, so if Harbaugh is done with the college game and ready to concentrate on pure football, he won’t even have to search for those opportunities. They’ll find him.

Michigan’s only hope is that he’s still invigorated by the challenge of building the complete person, not just the athletic side, and believes Stanford and its average of 10,000 empty seats per home game has maxed out this season at 11-1.

Harbaugh is a guy with an insatiable lust for competition and an unquenchable confidence in himself to conquer.

He said this to me and Kirk Herbstreit this fall on 97.1 The Fan in Columbus when asked about what drives him:

“Competing. Just compete, compete, compete…What’s it like to compete? It’s like when you are a little kid, going to the playground. What are we playing today? Is it basketball? Is it baseball? Is it football? Let’s see who can climb a tree the highest. Who are we going against? Every week, that brings you back. Monday, you get back at it. What can you do to make your team successful? And if we didn’t win, let’s make damn sure that doesn’t happen again.”

So, Michigan Fan, you pick: Do you want that guy coaching your squad, or do you want to get up there on the dais with RichRod while he pleads for acceptance three years too late and sways to some cheesy feel-good music?

Harbaugh is the perfect guy to end your misery. Remember, upon inheriting a 1-11 Stanford program, he went into the Los Angeles Coliseum to face Pete Carroll in his first year as a 41-point underdog with a backup quarterback and ended a 35-game USC winning streak.

Two years later, he went back to USC and beat them 55-21, going for a two-point conversion with a 48-21 lead and 6:47 to play because, “It just seemed like the right thing to do.”

You want that guy in Ann Arbor.

You need that guy in Ann Arbor.

You can have that guy in Ann Arbor.

Just say you’re sorry.

Urban meyer

Originally posted by Snider8706:
Urban meyer

Well, he is available

John Stossel.

I've long considered Gruden/Harbaugh a pipedream and still do, but I've been doing some reading around. It seems like I'm on the computer every 3 hours trying to find some inside information on Singletary's future and the resulting aftermath.

By now you all know that the 49ers are targeting both Gruden & Harbaugh as potential replacements, but what gives me hope that they are a realistic possibility is what I've read.

Apparently John Clayton of ESPN has gone on record as saying according to his sources out in SF, Gruden is in play.

I've read that people close to Harbaugh believe he is ready to make the jump to the NFL. Yeah he has an extension on the table, but he hasn't come out and confirmed it, nor has he confirmed he will sign it. One insider paints Harbaugh's options as this:

1. NFL
2. Michigan (if RR is fired)
3. Stanford

Of course because he is in such high demand it'll probably take a Pete Carroll type package to land him and I am AGAINST giving the head coach carte blanche. Not everyone is Bill Belichick. The 49ers would still need to hire a GM.

I wouldn't mind :

Harbaugh
Gruden
Holmgren
Kubiak
Mariucci(not gonna hapen though)

Don't want :

Singletary
B.Schottenheimer
Urban Meyer
Wade Phillips
J. Fisher
Cowher
J. Fox
J. Mora

I have this strong feeling Gruden is really gonna be our next HC. I know I've said this before, but now with his son chiming in, it seems as if he'll be named right when the season ends.

Originally posted by Snider8706:
Urban meyer

I wondered the same thing when I heard he resigned. I mean his poster child QB is here. God please don't let this happen.

Originally posted by Kolohe:
I have this strong feeling Gruden is really gonna be our next HC. I know I've said this before, but now with his son chiming in, it seems as if he'll be named right when the season ends.

cosigned.

I'd have faith in gruden. But it's really going to depend on who he brings on his staff. What defensive system will he want? how big of a roll will he have and will jed bring in a gm or promote baalke?

And will he want a qb in the first. It was cool watching that segment he did last season with tebow, clausen, and mccoy. If he has the choice of newton, mallet, and locker, I wonder who he chooses

I will be happy with either Harbaugh and Gruden.

My only problem is that I'm still not 100% sure that Jed will fire Sing.

all the big name writers agree that both Harbaugh and Gruden are interested in our team.

finally this is my $0.02 on the coaching changes in the nfl:

Cowboys: I think they will promote Garrett if he wins a couple more games.
Vikings: same with Frazier
Raiders: i think Davis might promote Hue Jackson as He will be too scared to lose him to an other team.
Texans: If they miss on the playoffs again I think they will fire Kubiak and will try to hire a defensive minded coach to fix their biggest problem, maybe Fox is an option here.
Panthers: a cheap HC for sure, maybe Grimm from the cardinals.
Broncos: some who has ties to the organization, reports mentions Kubiak if he gets fire in Houston.

I think there might be a few more changes, like the titans, Browns and Bengals.

Originally posted by hungarian9erfan:
I will be happy with either Harbaugh and Gruden.

My only problem is that I'm still not 100% sure that Jed will fire Sing.

all the big name writers agree that both Harbaugh and Gruden are interested in our team.

finally this is my $0.02 on the coaching changes in the nfl:

Cowboys: I think they will promote Garrett if he wins a couple more games.
Vikings: same with Frazier
Raiders: i think Davis might promote Hue Jackson as He will be too scared to lose him to an other team.
Texans: If they miss on the playoffs again I think they will fire Kubiak and will try to hire a defensive minded coach to fix their biggest problem, maybe Fox is an option here.
Panthers: a cheap HC for sure, maybe Grimm from the cardinals.
Broncos: some who has ties to the organization, reports mentions Kubiak if he gets fire in Houston.

I think there might be a few more changes, like the titans, Browns and Bengals.

I don't think he is going to fire Cable.

The Panthers might not go the cheap route, they have long been linked as a landing spot for Bill Cowher.

In Cleveland with every passing quarter of football, it is becoming less and less likely Mangini gets fired. That team is playing better in every aspect, with a 3rd round rookie at the helm. They may just finish at 500.

Marvin Lewis' contract is up at years end in Cincy. An extension does not look good.

Originally posted by hungarian9erfan:
I will be happy with either Harbaugh and Gruden.

My only problem is that I'm still not 100% sure that Jed will fire Sing.

all the big name writers agree that both Harbaugh and Gruden are interested in our team.

finally this is my $0.02 on the coaching changes in the nfl:

Cowboys: I think they will promote Garrett if he wins a couple more games.
Vikings: same with Frazier
Raiders: i think Davis might promote Hue Jackson as He will be too scared to lose him to an other team.
Texans: If they miss on the playoffs again I think they will fire Kubiak and will try to hire a defensive minded coach to fix their biggest problem, maybe Fox is an option here.
Panthers: a cheap HC for sure, maybe Grimm from the cardinals.
Broncos: some who has ties to the organization, reports mentions Kubiak if he gets fire in Houston.

I think there might be a few more changes, like the titans, Browns and Bengals.

I'd be fine with either one as well. But I think it's all but certain that the Yorks will fire Sing. I'm sure they know just as everyone else that waiting another year would remove the possibility of getting a good coach.

Gruden, Harbaugh and every other viable candidate will have jobs by then.